Natalia Muscatelli
07/22/2021 13:01
Clarín.com
Economy
Updated 07/22/2021 1:02 PM
The joint ventures closed with the building managers' union, who received a 10% increase in July, will begin to be reflected
in the expenses that are settled in July, and expire in the first days of August.
Thus, the increase that managers will receive after the agreement reached by the Single Union of Rent and Horizontal Building Workers (SUTERH),
will have an approximate impact -depending on various factors- of 8% in the cost of expenses,
according to Eighth Piso, a web consortium management system. For example, a two-room apartment that now pays about
$ 7,000 in expenses, will pay $ 7,560 in August.
The goalkeepers' union was the first to achieve a review of the parity
that - last March - had reached a 32% increase. But, due to inflationary pressure, the review made the union agree to
the additional payment of extra fees
for $ 8,000 per month until February of next year. With this, the adjustment of the salaries of those in charge closed with an annual increase of 44.8%. That is to say that,
in a year, the expenses will increase between 25 and 30%
, according to the chambers of the sector. Given that
the weight of the salaries of the managers oscillates between 55% and 60% in the total value of the expenses.
According to the calculations of the Eighth Floor, the incidence of the salaries of those in charge is lower, however, it is still
the most significant concept in the increase in expenses, they
agree.
In order of importance, in terms of their percentage, they are followed by service payments, public services, and the maintenance of common areas.
The rest of the items affect less than 10%
”, according to this source.
“In maintenance of common spaces, the most common are fixes due to humidity or broken pipes
.
A minor problem, such as a leak in a joint, generates water, which produces moisture, and ends up being a spiral.
Other common cases are old buildings with problems in the gas installation, with the tanks or also the elevators ”, they explain on the site.
Based on the data obtained by Eighth Floor, which has more than 100,000 users in the Federal Capital and the interior,
if the expenses of May 2021 are compared with those of the same month last year, it is very difficult to find a single
and clear
pattern
on the percentage of increase and the causes.
“The reasons are various.
One of them is that the services were frozen due to the pandemic,
while many expenses reduced the cost of the ATP income
.
On the other hand, there are others that increased a lot, but the reason is that they have faced maintenance works ".
Among the services that had
a significant increase is surveillance
.
The buildings that have 24-hour security pay three shifts and
that makes the expenses very expensive.
Some buildings, instead of being commissioned as a permanent plant, hire a cleaning services company, which comes in as a service payment.
"The other concept that made the expenses more expensive, as a fixed expense, is the maintenance of elevators," according to the source.
In any case,
the most important variation will be in the expenses of July, due to the increase granted to those in charge of the buildings.
The progressive adjustments in building expenses as a consequence of inflation, produced
an increase in payment delinquency
.
Today, in the buildings of the Federal Capital, delinquency (among those who owe two or three months of expenses, not those who are in litigation)
is
estimated
at 15%
.
When, in normal times it would be between 5 and 10%.
Clearly, non-performing loans grew more intensely in office and shopping center buildings (20%)
than in private homes, especially in downtown or macro-center areas.
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